October 29 is International Internet Day. For better or worse, the creation of the Internet has changed everything. It created new ways to communicate, provided an open platform for free speech and the free exchange of ideas. It created a new and level playing field where tiny Davids could successfully complete with old ...
One of my favorite TV shows of all time. Helped me to learn that all families are odd, or at least my family wasn’t the only one. Of course there is a new animated film about to be released. Did you know they were first seen in a 1938 New Yorker cartoon? From the Smithsonian, and Dan’s Media Digest. If you are a fan, read both articles.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Firewalls crashing, communications lost, and the realization that this was not a technology failure of the U.S. power grid. It was a first-of-its-kind cyber-attack that reveals the risks of our increasingly connected infrastructure. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) revealed details of the new ...
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I hate robocalls. I got rid on my land line phone because the ONLY people who called me on it were robocallers, fraudsters, and political campaigns (more fraudsters?). Now up to 80% of my cellular phone calls are robocalls. If it seems that there are more robocalls then ever, this is not an illusion. Robocalls have increased 46% from 2017 to 2018, ...
Creating and remembering strong (long) passwords is a chore, and leads to poor security practices such as shorter passwords, reuse of passwords, and writing down passwords in a password list or book that could be stolen. The best way to create strong passwords and store them for use is a password manager.
The easiest password managers are found in popular web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Safari uses the ...
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The first week of October was the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) but brought us news of new crypto-ransomware attacks against hospital systems in Alabama (USA), and Victoria, Austrailia. It appears that in both cases the hospital systems are wotking with federal cyber incident response teams to mitigate and recover, and ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: October 4, 2019
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has released a blog post describing an increase in malicious cyber activity from the Iranian group known as Phosphorus. These threat actors are exploiting password reset or account recovery features to take control of targeted email accounts.
In a ...
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A recent report says that 75% of corporate executives believe what 100% of cybersecurity professionals know: phishing emails represent the greatest cyber-threat to business computer systems and networks. Humans are still the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. Cybersecurity awareness training and simulated phishing testing is seen as the most effective way to improve detection and avoidance in employees. To be truly effective training frequency should happen quarterly, but often ...
When I am speaking or training, and the subject turns to penetration testing, I make certain to explain to the class or audience that nearly everything a pen-tester does violates federal laws. For starters, there is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. There are many other computer laws at both the federal and state levels.
Penetration testing takes a vulnerability assessment to the ...
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